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Aug 9, 2021 · Published: Aug. 09, 2021, 9:59 a.m. FILE - In this April 22, 2010 file photo, actress Jane Withers arrives at the premiere of the newly restored feature film "A Star Is Born" in Los Angeles. AP ...
Aug 9, 2021 · Aug. 9, 2021, 12:25 PM UTC. By The Associated Press. Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in a series of B movies that made her a box ...
Aug 9, 2021 · Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in B-movies and the “Josephine the Plumber” TV commercials, has died, her daughter said. She ...
Aug 8, 2021 · John Engstead. Jane Withers, a former child star known for her roles in “Bright Eyes” and “Ginger” and as the commercial character Josephine the Plumber, has died. She was 95. Withers ...
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Withers was one of the biggest child stars of the 1930s, sometimes acting as a foil to the superstar child actress Shirley Temple (1928–2014). Withers tended to play mischievous little girls and tomboys, a formula that followed her into her teens. Her notable films as a child star included “Bright Eyes” (1934), “Ginger” (1935), and “The Holy Terror...
Withers returned to the big screen for a supporting role in “Giant” (1956) and thereafter continued to work intermittently. She appeared on TV shows including “Bachelor Father,” “The Munsters,” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Her greatest later-career fame came when she accepted a role as Josephine the Plumber in a series of Comet cleanser ads in the mid-...
“I was just the opposite of her. There was nothing about me in any way, shape, or form that I could ever be like Shirley Temple. I was just plain Jane – no curls, no dimples, no anything – just me.” —from a 2013 interview for Journeys in Classic Film
Feb 1, 2021 · Actress Roberts, best known for her work on Charlie’s Angels and That ’70s Show, died in January after becoming hospitalized for UTI complications, which then spread to her other organs and ...
Joanna Cameron. B.S. I Love You. Shazam! Patricia Kara Cameron (September 20, 1948 – October 15, 2021), sometimes credited as JoAnna Cameron, was an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her portrayal of the title role on Isis, a 1970s children's television series, which was later rebroadcast as The Secrets of Isis. [1]
